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Agreed, but if you don't ask him, you'll never know, and I truly think he would give you all the advices needed to start on good basis. One hour with Axl will be better than a year on the YouTube... You have absolutely nothing to lose, on the contrary.

Noise Annoys - Buzzcocks

Gigging in shorts. A great idea until you see how silly you look in the photos. Especially as a short ar$e

Some people can get away with it... Didn't know what time it was The lights were low I leaned back on my radio Some cat was layin' down Some rock 'n' roll 'Lotta soul', he said Then the loud sound did seem to fade Came back like a slow voice on a wave of phase That weren't no D.J. that was hazy cosmic jive There's a starman waiting in the sky He'd like to come and meet us But he thinks he'd blow our minds There's a starman waiting in the sky He's told us not to blow it 'Cause he knows it's all worthwhile He told me: Let the children lose it Let the children use it Let all the children boogie

Thanks @TimR, I've been almost lynched for what I dared to write there, so I understood that those in the mentioned thread are the defenders of "I make as much noise as I want, because I was there first and it's my property...".

"Yeah man this is a real tasty jam, digging those hot licks you're throwing into the pocket. Pure mojo pouring out of your axe."

An instrumental can't be a ditty! ditty /ˈdɪti/ noun a short, simple song. "a lovely little music-hall ditty"

And there was me thinking from your posts you were in your mid-thirties! Great playing and pics.

Welllll I work in Antwerp and I'm familiar with Axl Peleman, but a beginner contacting Axl Peleman for these issues feels like a beginner boxer contacting Mike Tyson for sparring 😅

Not sure the East option is going to work as their stock seems very low plus no response so have found myself rather interested in the Luthisand Double NFP which will also drop straight in https://www.bassdirect.co.uk/product/lusithand-double-nfp-jazzplate-updated/ Any experience?

I feel it makes a difference, I made my own hpf so it wasn't expensive and has no impact on anything above a low B so it's worth it as an insurance policy. It does reduce cone flap when I put the bass down or put my had across the strings. I don't know if I get the promised extra headroom as my kit is usually just ticking over anyway.

I've messaged John re a preamp I'm looking to buy ASAP as well as putting my name on the wait list for another less urgent purchase several months back and had no reply to either. Stock on his site also seems very low as does stock of East units at Bass Direct. It's a shame but I'll be looking elsewhere, probably Luthishand

No question they have their uses, but a few years ago we were all convinced we HAD to get one to hear a big improvement. Many found they had no need for one.

"I couldn't care if I'm soloing in Ab major or O type positive as long as I'm shredding it dude"

If you can hear it, it's not an hpf solvable issue. It's when you see the cone making big movements without much sound. I've seen big cone excursions from surprisingly gentle handling. Also, I want to be able to play an open E or even a low B without worrying when I have an octaver in circuit. So I just have an hpf on my pedal board and am reasonably sensible when playing without effects.

Off topic but what did you move on to the Helix to?

At one point I had two matching 4u Gator racks. One had my bass rig in (a wireless and Helix). I needed this rack for every gig we played. The other housed my mixer and bluetooth music player. I only needed this rack when we were providing our own sound. Guess who showed up to a festival an hour away from my house with the one, wrong rack? I've long since moved on from the Helix but the mixer rack is still in use and still has several large '2' stickers on it just so I can tell it apart from the long gone '1' rack with the Helix in. Hey, at least I learned my lesson to label things clearly.

The venue should be controlling the volume. There's another thread from a couple of weeks back where people are complaining that venues are being forced to stop playing loud music due to compliants from neighbours, even though the music venues were there first. Just because you were there first, doesnt give you carte blanche to act as you please.

I used to always mod my instruments in my teens and 20s - putting a Precision pickup on a Jazz Bass, EMGs on a Rickenbacker 4003, Seymour Duncans in my Jazzmaster (although that was a swap, no mods needed), installing a pickup selector switch on the same Jazz and then changing it to a blend knob. It was a popular thing to do in the 70s and 80s, I stopped all that in the early 1990s. It just dawned on me: "Do you really think you know better than Leo Fender or <fill in the blank pro designer>?" I'm now kind of mortified I ever did those things....especially to that Rickenbacker. Presumably it's still out there somewhere. Although I did swap out that old Precision pickup in the Jazz for a Bruce Thomas from Bass Centre a few years ago, so I guess I can still be persuaded.

Couldn’t understand why I was getting no difference with my preamp set to “bypass” or “on. Spent the whole gig perplexed and convinced my hearing was shot. Nope, plugged into the “thru” output not the “effect” output. 😀

I love this stuff. This is the complete Hans Glawischnig bass part for the tune 'Taigo Salsa' from the 2019 Miguel Zenon album, 'Sonero: the music of Ismael Rivera'. Puerto Rican Latin in 9:4! What more can you ask for! https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/traigo-salsa-miguel-zenon/